The Young Initiative invites foreign policy experts and guest speakers to campus to engage in discussions on international relations and the global political economy with students and faculty.
Past Young Initiative Speaker Events
Young Initiative speakers give students and faculty an opportunity to expand their understanding of global issues. The Young Initiative sponsors several speakers each academic year highlighting particular aspects of global affairs and the global political economy. The Young Speakers program is devoted to highlighting the work and success of eminent international affairs experts and Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumni in public service and academia.
Professor Jeff Wasserstrom, from UC Irvine, is a modern Chinese social and cultural historian, with a strong interest in connecting China's past to its present and placing both into comparative and global perspective. He has taught and written about subjects ranging from gender to revolution, human rights to urban change.
Andrew Hudson spoke today in Choi Auditorium on global water usage in a talk entitled, "The Global Crisis: Water Supply and Sanitation" Andrew Hudson joined the United Nations Development Program in 1996 as Principal Technical Adviser for the UNDP-GEF International Waters Programme.
Brad Feld visited campus today to talk to DWA 151 about his work as an early stage investor and entrepreneur. Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987.
Politics, Diplomacy and World Affairs, and the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs presents this Brown Bag Series.
During his 38-year-career in Canada's public service, Bob Fowler was the foreign policy advisor to Prime Ministers Trudeau, Turner, and Mulroney; the Deputy Minister of National Defense, Canada's longest-serving ambassador to the UN, the ambassador to Italy, sherpa for the Kananaskis G8 Summit, and the personal representat
Moi Enomenga, tribal leader of the Huaroani peoples in the Ecuadorian amazon, visited campus on September 25, 2013 to speak about the current issues facing his peoples' region today. Enomenga was visiting the United States as part of a trip to appeal to the United Nations to protect the still-uncontacted peoples of the Amazon.
On Monday, October 17, 2023, the Young Initiative at Â鶹ÊÓƵ hosted a thought-provoking talk by Professor Jaimie Bleck from the University of Notre Dame, centering on Mali's current crossroads.